PRIUS SHOP MANUALS OUTRAGEOUS

Interesting.. a couple questions on this:

1. Is a one day subscription enough to find/download the manuals. Sounds like it is, and $10 is a small price to pay for that.
2. Is access to information limited in any way by your choice of "User Preference" on the subrscibe page, i.e. "Do-it-yourself", "wholesale/fleet service", "independent service provider", etc.?

 

The techinfo site is a great way to acquire the collection. I think it's only $30 for a month; you can easily download all of the manuals in that time. Do it while watching football or something.

Nate

 

I too will cast my vote for techinfo.toyota.com. Present price options are $10 for one day, $50 for one month, and $350 for a year. Downloading is a PITA (minor one), but I already have about half of the Prius manuals saved, organized into subfolders corresponding to the chapters of the manual. PDFs are so much more convenient than bulky manuals. And your subscription gives you access to everything they've got, not just the manuals, but also TSBs, tech training pubs, and so forth. All models and years too. It's an outstanding value -- can't rave about it enough. Try it, if only for a day, but be careful -- it's addictive!

 

Once I got the hang of downloading, sorting, and renaming I was able to download EVERYTHING for the 2006 Prius in less than 4 hours. It took me a few weeks to then sort, rename, combine, and bookmark everything the way I wanted for easy access. In fact i'm due back to check on if there are any updates plus download everything for the 2007 Yaris for my dad.

<strike>If you have proof you have a subscription to techinfo.toyota.com I might let you have access to my sorted and combined documents. PM me for more info. Keep it hush hush</strike>

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Aug 24 2006, 10:38 AM) [snapback]308859[/snapback]</div>

Unless of course you live outside the US like us Canucks (and others) that Toyota won't even let pay for access.

Dave

 

Do they have one of those repair guides that you can buy in auto parts stores? "Hanes" I believe they're called?

 

I had a Haynes for my last car (Ford Probe). I also had the shop manual ($80) and electrical guide ($25). The Haynes ($12.95) is nice, but more like a "Car Manual For Dummies." It's handy, and I used it more than the shop manual, but it covers a lot less ground.

If there was one for the Prius, I'd probably get it, but maybe the techinfo site would be good if you really want to go in depth.

 

the haynes series is ok for basic stuff... how things come apart, etc. i don't know if/when/what they'll do for a prius manual or if it will be worth anything.

unfortunately print repair manuals are insanely expensive... the cost of wrenching is going up every day, kinda wish the pay matched that trend!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Norman H. Renehan @ Aug 24 2006, 10:14 AM) [snapback]308848[/snapback]</div>

While $500 is pretty high in my book, generally service manuals for cars are pretty expensive. http://www.nissan-techinfo.com/nissan/dept...sid=&dept_id=10 has prices for Nissan service manuals if you're curious.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveG @ Aug 24 2006, 07:41 PM) [snapback]309126[/snapback]</div>

Dave, David here. Someone replied in another thread that you can get around this by just entering a US city and postal code when you give them your info. I suppose it worked because the site doesn't check with the card company right away on the address. I haven't tried it yet so I can't verify if it works.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(David Beale @ Aug 27 2006, 11:41 AM) [snapback]310123[/snapback]</div>

I had to do the same thing on the euro site. It would not let me put in a USA address so I had to put that I was in France. It did let me put my real address for my credit card. But I think that the eruo tech doc site is ran by a different company because its completely different layout. About 2 months later I got a letter in the mail from France addressed to me in France but had USA OHIO hand written on the front of the envelope. ASll it said is that they charged my credit card and owed nothing.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theforce @ Aug 27 2006, 06:52 PM) [snapback]310148[/snapback]</div>

Could you please post the link to the euro site.

Thanks
Richard

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Richard Bätschmann @ Sep 3 2006, 03:43 PM) [snapback]313558[/snapback]</div>

http://techdoc.toyota-europe.com/

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Norman H. Renehan @ Aug 24 2006, 01:14 PM) [snapback]308848[/snapback]</div>

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2006-Toyota...024577435QQrdZ1


OR

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2003-2006-T...022173352QQrdZ1

 

I seem to remember a conversation on this board saying that the guy who made that CD had ripped off a bunch of diagrams and stuff without permission from a fellow member on this site as well as from Toyota. Buyer Beware...

See this thread:
http://priuschat.com/index.php?s=&show...st&p=296096